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Interview no. | U-0723 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.19. Long Civil Rights Movement: Breaking New Ground |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2012, conducted for the Breaking New Ground: A History of American Farm Owners Since the Civil War project. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was coordinated by Adrienne Petty (of the City College of New York) and Mark Schultz (of Lewis University in Illinois) with assistance from Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews were conducted by two cohorts of research fellows and centered on African American farmers', landowners', and descendants' political, social, and economic experiences in the American South from the Civil War onward. |
Date | 27 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Varner, Alphair J. |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smalls, Stella. |
Abstract | This interview was formed around the fact that the Varners were a very productive farm family that owned over a hundred acres of land. In addition, it goes into the integration of schools and how it affected the life of Alphair Varner and her family. Varner had a special story to tell because she was a schoolteacher during the 1960s. She discussed how the land was kept and how she desired to keep it together, but that it could be used by family members for homesteads. It was almost like talking with a woman who was single handedly holding onto a dynasty. Furthermore, the interview led to fact that several people had lost their land, and she was trying to avoid the pitfalls that were experienced by those people. |
Citation | Interview with Alphair Varner by Stella Smalls, 27 May 2011 U-0723, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | U0723_Audio |